Dnipro railway station

Dnipro-Holovnyi
Near-Dnipro Railway terminal
General information
Location Ukraine, Dnipro
Owned byUkrainian Railways (Near-Dnipro Railway)
Platforms12
Tracks24
Construction
Parkingyes
Other information
Station code45100
History
Opened1884[1]
Electrifiedyes
Previous namesYekaterinoslav (1884-1926)
Services
Preceding station   Near-Dnipro Railway   Following station
Map
Location
Dnipro is located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
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Location within Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipro is located in Ukraine
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Dnipro (Ukraine)
Dnipro is located in Europe
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Dnipro-Holovnyi is the main railway station of Dnipro. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

History[edit]

The station was opened in 1884, called Ekaterinoslav.

July 20, 1926, the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the city and station Ekaterinoslav was renamed to Dnipropetrovsk.[2]

During the Holodomor, British journalist Gareth Jones noted that it was filled with starving peasants desperate for food.[3]

During World War II the building was destroyed and in its place under the project of architect Alexey Dushkin in 1951 and built a new station building.

In 1976 a large monumental statue of Grigoriy Petrovsky, after whom the city was renamed in 1926, was erected on the square in front of the railway station.[4][5] This statue was destroyed by an angry mob on 29 January 2016.[4]

On 19 May 2016 the official name of Dnipropetrovsk was changed to Dnipro.[6] Hence the official name of the station was changed to Dnipro-Holovnyi.[7]

Trains[edit]

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine Dnipro city became an important logistic point for refugees and army

As for the April 2023, next routes are set[8]

Passing trains:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981
  2. ^ USSR: rename Ekaterinoslav to Dnipropetrovsk and Ekaterinoslav station to Dnipropetrovsk station
  3. ^ Snyder, Timothy (2010). Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02290-8. OCLC 688506397.
  4. ^ a b "Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader toppled in Ukraine". Yahoo News Singapore. AFP News. 30 January 2016.
    Soviet-Era (February 2016). "Monument Torn Down in Eastern Ukraine". Radio Free Europe.
  5. ^ [1] В 1976 г. архитектурно-художественная композиция привокзальной площади была завершена постановкой памятника Г. И. Петровскому
  6. ^ "Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro". UNIAN. Retrieved 19 May 2016. The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption.
    (in Ukrainian) Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (№3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region №3864), 19 May 2016.
  7. ^ (in Ukrainian) Only after the city - JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" explains when rename stations Archived 2016-11-17 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainian Railways (7 June 2016)
  8. ^ Passenger Timetable, Ukrainian Railways

External links[edit]

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